Free as in libre, not free as in beer - he was referring to the wealth of free as in libre (offered for free as in beer) software available from the Cydia (and others) repository.
I have seen Postgres going horribly wrong, so it is not an option for my production environment
Can you clarify? I recently (well, a year ago) switched one of our main web apps from MySQL to Postgres (I needed transactional support on large tables (>100 columns) - which made InnoDB useless), and I've never looked back. How does Postgres go "horribly wrong"?
I'm betting the iSlate - or whatever the hell it's going to be called, is aimed squarely at the netbook market, with only a sideways glance at the "tablet" market.
As I read - (not interested in digging that far in my browser history, so find your own links), unobtainium has been used to describe materials that were ideal for a given purpose but were otherwise unobtainable, because of their expense, or occasionally because they were fictional, theoretically ideal substances. Titanium apparently earned this name during the Cold War, due to the fact that the Soviets had a stranglehold on its supply.
After reading about this my annoyance at such a stupid name quickly dissolved, as it seems perfectly reasonable that such a remarkable substance (a room temperature superconductor) would earn such a moniker; it is, after all, only available on a moon that orbits a planet that is light years away from Earth, at least as far as the story is concerned. It is not unreasonable to presume that the "real" name for the substance was not nearly so catchy, and thus the people responsible for gathering said substance stuck with the nickname that it rightfully earned.
I live in NYC, and in my apartment, my cell phone (which always claims 4-5 bars signal at my desk) will, on a good day, work excellently - dropping maybe one (of many) calls during the day. On a bad day, it will consistently drop nearly every call (>90%) within about the first two minutes of a call. At any large gathering of people (the free David Byrne show in Prospect Park this summer, or Penn Station on the day before thanksgiving, e.g.) the internet connection will not function.
AT&T's network sucks in NYC, I'm switching to T-Mobile as soon as my contract is up (~1 month).
Fart jokes actually came first, per one of the earliest tweets in the stream, he based his design upon a fart detecting office chair over at instructables(twitter-style shortened, just because).
I've got a Logitech M555b - which, aside from having too few buttons, is an excellent mouse, with an awesome scroll wheel. The click under the wheel doesn't send an event to the machine, but switches it between discrete click-y mode, and smooth analog-y scroll mode. It's fantastic. The wheel has just enough weight that you can really use the smooth scroll with very good control over scrolling speed. It's also very handy for video apps that support using the scroll wheel for scrubbing (e.g. Quicktime X).
Not arguing with your post - I keep my mouse always in smooth mode.
Cheaters are not their concern (at least, it certainly doesn't seem to be). Microsoft's best customers are not so much the people that buy their consoles - it's the people that buy games for their consoles. The argument here is that people are modding their xboxes to sidestep Microsoft's DRM protection in order to play "backup" games. The people doing this are not particularly interested in creatively modding their xbox so much as being able to (via someone else's creative work) download torrented disc images, burn them to dvd, and play them on their xboxes.
The only problem with this approach is that some (undoubtedly small) percentage of users who are in fact doing creative things by modding their xbox could also fall victim to being a false positive from whatever method Microsoft is using to identify the modders.
I haven't found an app that would let it function like an airport express
I have. Airfoil and it's affiliated speaker programs are great software and work fantastically well for me - anyone with airfoil installed on their computer can stream to my audio system. Quite reasonably priced, too.
As best I can tell - jailbreaking won't allow you to get the MMS update and tethering working at the same time (yet, I'm sure it's just a matter of time). Apple has changed the way carrier profile files are handled on the phone, now requiring them to be signed (meaning the downloadable ones that enabled tethering will no longer function).
I'm in the same boat as you - tethering is far more valuable to me than MMS - I won't update until i can have both (on my already jailbroken phone).
Most of the people responsible for testing on animals love animals just as much as the GP, and treat them as kindly and humanely as is possible under the circumstances. Suffering is minimized via anesthetics whenever possible, and while ultimately yes, animals lives are spent in this process, keep in mind that in the vast majority of cases - these animals would not be alive in the first place were it not because they were needed for this type of research.
My mother (at one time a cardiovascular pharmacologist (read: she studied the effects of drugs on animals)) told me a story about how one monday morning, she came back to her lab to find that it had been broken into, and all the animals had been "set free". Meaning that otherwise perfectly healthy animals were on the verge of death due to blood loss because they had torn their sutures, and animals that needed to remain immobilized (for other reasons) did serious damage to themselves with their newfound "freedom".
Now - I am certainly not equating the attitudes of those responsible for the above anecdote to those of the GP, but I think that people need to understand that the people who do research with animals love animals too, and as a result will always do everything in their power to minimize the suffering of animals. While their actions in this regard are of course bound by the subject and requirements of the study, and some animals are, of course, killed in the process - we are ultimately getting mountains of useful information (that nearly everyone in the developed world is currently benefitting from) in as humane a way as we possibly can.
Your apartment rental agency *charges* for cats? I must be spoiled living in the ghetto - my landlord doesn't give two shits about what's in my apartment.
A 747 has approximately 190,000 feet of copper wiring - per this. I would imagine that that translates to quite a bit of weight - if that weight were to be reduced significantly (by half or better) - the fuel savings would not be negligible. The other place suggested for their usage was in satellites - which is a market where the cost is per kilogram - and satellites, as they are now, I'm sure owe quite a bit of their weight to the wiring that makes them function.
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Free as in libre, not free as in beer - he was referring to the wealth of free as in libre (offered for free as in beer) software available from the Cydia (and others) repository.
AND they don't acknowledge these issues when they arise until enough people make a stink
Name a business that does it any other way.
I have seen Postgres going horribly wrong, so it is not an option for my production environment
Can you clarify? I recently (well, a year ago) switched one of our main web apps from MySQL to Postgres (I needed transactional support on large tables (>100 columns) - which made InnoDB useless), and I've never looked back. How does Postgres go "horribly wrong"?
I'm betting the iSlate - or whatever the hell it's going to be called, is aimed squarely at the netbook market, with only a sideways glance at the "tablet" market.
As I read - (not interested in digging that far in my browser history, so find your own links), unobtainium has been used to describe materials that were ideal for a given purpose but were otherwise unobtainable, because of their expense, or occasionally because they were fictional, theoretically ideal substances. Titanium apparently earned this name during the Cold War, due to the fact that the Soviets had a stranglehold on its supply.
After reading about this my annoyance at such a stupid name quickly dissolved, as it seems perfectly reasonable that such a remarkable substance (a room temperature superconductor) would earn such a moniker; it is, after all, only available on a moon that orbits a planet that is light years away from Earth, at least as far as the story is concerned. It is not unreasonable to presume that the "real" name for the substance was not nearly so catchy, and thus the people responsible for gathering said substance stuck with the nickname that it rightfully earned.
Avalanches, Girl Talk - both exclusively remix other artists work - the end result is still undeniably new art.
I live in NYC, and in my apartment, my cell phone (which always claims 4-5 bars signal at my desk) will, on a good day, work excellently - dropping maybe one (of many) calls during the day. On a bad day, it will consistently drop nearly every call (>90%) within about the first two minutes of a call. At any large gathering of people (the free David Byrne show in Prospect Park this summer, or Penn Station on the day before thanksgiving, e.g.) the internet connection will not function.
AT&T's network sucks in NYC, I'm switching to T-Mobile as soon as my contract is up (~1 month).
Fart jokes actually came first, per one of the earliest tweets in the stream, he based his design upon a fart detecting office chair over at instructables(twitter-style shortened, just because).
I sincerely doubt this joke will last that long into the marriage.
This site has a video and some more information.
Or perhaps he meant to use the definite article - i.e. "the Kernel", as in "the Kernel to end all kernels"...
I've got a Logitech M555b - which, aside from having too few buttons, is an excellent mouse, with an awesome scroll wheel. The click under the wheel doesn't send an event to the machine, but switches it between discrete click-y mode, and smooth analog-y scroll mode. It's fantastic. The wheel has just enough weight that you can really use the smooth scroll with very good control over scrolling speed. It's also very handy for video apps that support using the scroll wheel for scrubbing (e.g. Quicktime X).
Not arguing with your post - I keep my mouse always in smooth mode.
Cheaters are not their concern (at least, it certainly doesn't seem to be). Microsoft's best customers are not so much the people that buy their consoles - it's the people that buy games for their consoles. The argument here is that people are modding their xboxes to sidestep Microsoft's DRM protection in order to play "backup" games. The people doing this are not particularly interested in creatively modding their xbox so much as being able to (via someone else's creative work) download torrented disc images, burn them to dvd, and play them on their xboxes.
The only problem with this approach is that some (undoubtedly small) percentage of users who are in fact doing creative things by modding their xbox could also fall victim to being a false positive from whatever method Microsoft is using to identify the modders.
I haven't found an app that would let it function like an airport express
I have. Airfoil and it's affiliated speaker programs are great software and work fantastically well for me - anyone with airfoil installed on their computer can stream to my audio system. Quite reasonably priced, too.
Not going to search from work but I am curious, now.
You won't search for an e-meter on Google Marketplace from work, but you'll post on slashdot?
- $1000/mo Stuff
That's a fairly expensive coke habit...
He could have meant kids' heads.
As best I can tell - jailbreaking won't allow you to get the MMS update and tethering working at the same time (yet, I'm sure it's just a matter of time). Apple has changed the way carrier profile files are handled on the phone, now requiring them to be signed (meaning the downloadable ones that enabled tethering will no longer function).
I'm in the same boat as you - tethering is far more valuable to me than MMS - I won't update until i can have both (on my already jailbroken phone).
And yet it still can't compare to a straight razor.
Most of the people responsible for testing on animals love animals just as much as the GP, and treat them as kindly and humanely as is possible under the circumstances. Suffering is minimized via anesthetics whenever possible, and while ultimately yes, animals lives are spent in this process, keep in mind that in the vast majority of cases - these animals would not be alive in the first place were it not because they were needed for this type of research.
My mother (at one time a cardiovascular pharmacologist (read: she studied the effects of drugs on animals)) told me a story about how one monday morning, she came back to her lab to find that it had been broken into, and all the animals had been "set free". Meaning that otherwise perfectly healthy animals were on the verge of death due to blood loss because they had torn their sutures, and animals that needed to remain immobilized (for other reasons) did serious damage to themselves with their newfound "freedom".
Now - I am certainly not equating the attitudes of those responsible for the above anecdote to those of the GP, but I think that people need to understand that the people who do research with animals love animals too, and as a result will always do everything in their power to minimize the suffering of animals. While their actions in this regard are of course bound by the subject and requirements of the study, and some animals are, of course, killed in the process - we are ultimately getting mountains of useful information (that nearly everyone in the developed world is currently benefitting from) in as humane a way as we possibly can.
Your apartment rental agency *charges* for cats? I must be spoiled living in the ghetto - my landlord doesn't give two shits about what's in my apartment.
Hay is for horses.
I see what you did there - one-upping the GP by using rot39...
...one of the nice things about electric cars is that they're so quiet. Can you turn the sound off?
A 747 has approximately 190,000 feet of copper wiring - per this. I would imagine that that translates to quite a bit of weight - if that weight were to be reduced significantly (by half or better) - the fuel savings would not be negligible. The other place suggested for their usage was in satellites - which is a market where the cost is per kilogram - and satellites, as they are now, I'm sure owe quite a bit of their weight to the wiring that makes them function.